Category: 2016 Presidential Race

The question of what is the purpose of a political convention may seem a trifle simplistic to modern media pundits, but as three generations of teachers—and Democrats—in my family were want to say, there are no stupid questions; just stupid answers. So to all the politically savvy “experts” in the media and the Democratic political establishment nationwide, I recommend that you seriously consider—or reconsider—your own answer to this question, as well as my own answer below.

The GOP is a dying beast but can still do great harm; meanwhile, the Democratic Party establishment seems bound and determined to follow Hillary Clinton over the precipice. Their convention in July is the place to correct their mistake.

For a number of years, the presidential convention has simply been one giant publicity event, a raucous but essentially meaningless cheerleading rally for the pre-anointed candidate of the respective political party. We now have a prolonged and incredibly expensive process for selecting a presidential candidate, a process which is neither designed to choose the best possible person for the job, nor even the most electable candidate; and if the current Democratic Presidential nominating process is any guide, it is also not reflective of the wishes of the rank and file members of that political party, but the cynical will of a small circle of political bosses and their financial handlers.

Traditionally, the purpose of a presidential political convention has been to select a candidate; how the candidate was chosen has varied over the years, but in essence the convention was the medium through which this was done. Caucus, primary or smoke filled room have all been methods for selecting a suitable candidate; but the purpose has always been to choose the best person for the job, not to acquiesce to the political operative most acceptable to the billionaire class.

The Democratic Party is traveling straight into the Perfect Storm with #CrookedHillary and can’t see it. Only the nomination of Bernie Sanders can save the day.

Since the late 1970’s, the leadership of the Democratic Party—the party of Jefferson and Jackson, the party of the common man, the working man—has transformed it into a “me too” party, mimicking the Republican Party, perhaps a little less austere and still giving lip service to American workers but in fact undermining them at every turn, but has been gradually abandoning the values of FDR and the New Deal, the very programs and values that had made the Democratic Party the dominant political party for half a century; the programs and policies that had not only reformed a broken economic system, but ushered in an era of unprecedented prosperity for most Americans.

Mind you, the wealthy also benefited from the economic programs of the New Deal, since we are a consumer economy and the more money American workers have, the more they spend.

The reverse, however, is not true: giving the wealthy undeserved tax breaks and various “corporate welfare” schemes to not result in wealth trickling down to the American worker. They never have and never will: Trickle Down economics, or whatever label you rebrand it with, is a proven failure and just a con to rob the middle class of their wealth and transfer it to the top 1%. What is a billion dollars in political contributions when it will return you in 100 billion in tax breaks, government subsidies and assorted outsourcing and off-shoring schemes?

The only way Hillary has gotten the primary wins she has was by out and out cheating.

Bernie Sanders portrays himself as a “Democratic Socialist” and that is fine if he wishes to characterize his solid New Deal derived programs and policies in those terms. Perhaps all these years the Democratic Party should have been more forthright to the American people about all those “socialistic” programs which created wealth and prosperity in this country. Those programs, and a strong Union movement, created the record postwar prosperity we enjoyed between 1945 and into the 1970’s. Perhaps then the Repugnican NeoCons would never have gotten to first base with their vile economic voodoo even in the Republican Party.

Now both the GOP NeoCons and the DINO Democrat NeoLibs are attacking Social Security and Medicare as “entitlement programs” that need to be cut to balance the budget. Even Ronald Reagan laid it out in simple terms that, while Social Security is technically in the Federal Budget, it DOES NOT contribute to the deficit; it is fully funded by the American people and their employers. YES IT IS AN ENTITLEMENT: YOU ARE ENTITLED TO THAT MONEY BECAUSE YOU PAID INTO IT YOUR ENTIRE WORKING LIFE, NOT THE BILLIONAIRES! However, every American should be aware that over the years Social Security has been raided by the Republicans and some Dems as a giant slush fund to finance Billionaire tax cuts and otherwise unfunded wars (like Hillary’s Iraq War). So, no Social Security is not “going broke” but the Billionaires and their Congressional toadies have been stealing from the till and need to put the money back,

Hillary Clinton is a DINO—a Democrat In Name Only—and she and her fillandering husband have worked very hard to transform the Democratic Party in the Republican Light Party. Even many progressives in the party—and they are fewer every year—are largely afraid to cross the Clinton Crime Family or run too strongly against the NeoLiberal lies that the Clinton organization has made the new party dogma.

aux la barricades in July and take the Democratic Party back from the Oligarchs, America.

The Democratic Party needs to get back to its roots; nominate Bernie Sanders, move heaven and earth to get money out of politics and push through financial reforms and all the regulations that were put in place after the “free market” bankrupted America. The only reason these safeguards were removed was because of sheer greed. During World War II, FDR proposed a Second Bill of Rights, also known as the Economic Bill of Rights. Call it Socialism if you wish—but bear in mind the Pilgrims and the Puritans were socialists too and they never heard of Karl Marx.

Needless to say, all the phony trade treaties like NAFTA, the TPP and the upcoming TTIP and some 45 or so other scams to benefit multi-national corporations all need to be repealed and renegotiated into FAIR TRADE plans, where corporations are excluded and American workers benefited. Then, and only then, can this nation come back from the precipice and begin to return to a prosperous and just society.

Unless the Democratic Natonal Convention in July does its true duty and nominate Bernie Sanders as their standard bearer, our nation is headed for an even bigger financial collapse than we experienced in 2008. Hillary Clinton is a large part of the problem—her and the Republican NeoCons—and it is hard to say which would be worse, her or Trunp. If Hillary is nominated, there is a strong chance the Democratic Party will go down to defeat; if she wins, it is almost certain she will be impeached. Whatever vestige of Democracy we have is on the verge of disappearance. The Democratic Convention can reverse this dangerous situation, but not if it nominates the worst candidate they have had since the era of Boss Tweed.

Unless you live under a rock and, say, think the thing a basketball goes through is called a “ring” you are well familiar with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her upcoming coronation. Fillory, however, may be less familiar to some. It is a reference from Lev Grossman’s series of fantasy novels, The Magicians. Fillory is a magical never never land in this bestseller series which is supposedly the subject of a series of saccharine children’s books. Fillory and the fictitious children’s books are obviously patterned on Narnia and the book series by C. S. Lewis—an equally insipid magical world.

However, in Lev Grossman’s adult magic series, Fillory is very real and the creator of Fillory and author of the Fillory books is a child molester. So Fillory, instead of this wonderful idealistic place, is actually a very dangerous place controlled by a vicious sociopath. Hmm, now what would Hillary and Fillory have to do with one another, can we guess?

The narrative that the Clinton’s—mainly Hillary Clinton—have been promoting for over fifteen years that she is a dedicated progressive and reformer, a tireless champion of women’s and children’s rights and other noble causes. In truth, Hill & Bill are tireless promoters on no one but themselves; whenever she has occupied a political office, Hillary has used it to enrich herself at the public expense, selling votes and influence to the highest bidder; this is in addition to her ruthless grab for power. Let us be fair about this, were she the CEO of a major corporation, she would have made it tremendously successful and destroyed whatever competition lay in her way. But what may be allowable in the private sector (especially since the government has not enforced the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in nearly half a century) is NOT allowable to a person holding public office.

Hillary Clinton talks the talk but walks with the banksters and Wall Street oligarchs.

As Senator, she not only voted to invade Iraq but at every opportunity has been an eager war-hawk, adopting all the GOP Neocon’s official lies as her own. As Secretary of State, she has pushed the Obama administration to intervene in Libya and more recently Syria, both with disastrous consequences; she aided and abetted a military coup in Honduras and has protected that dictatorship from sanctions for their gross human rights abuse—in large part because of her financial dealings with a multi-national company, which is murdering and raping women and children to terrorize the local populace to acquiesce to a mega damn being built on their lands. You want weapons to suppress democracy in your country or region? You got it! You want to expand your fracking operations overseas? You got it! You want to push through trade deals that steal good-paying American jobs and avoid labor, environmental and other laws by outsourcing overseas—why Hillary has pushed through 45 such bad trade deals.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton actively promoted fracking overseas; her kickbacks from the fracking industry were funneled through the Clinton Foundation and a spider’s web of shell corporations.

Of course, any benefit to a corporation or foreign government comes with a price—but you can discuss the details on Hillary’s private email server, so the public won’t know about the bribery and financial dirt she’s dealing in.

The Clinton Foundation is officially billed as a benevolent organization doing good throughout the world; it is in fact, nothing more that a multi-national slush fund, designed to launder bribes and pay to play payments from, not just corporations, but foreign governments. Beginning with NAFTA and continuing on with a serious of disadvantageous trade deals designed to enthrone international banks and multinational corporations over the US and other democracies, and roll back environmental laws, safety requirements and labor protections worldwide, while transferring good paying American jobs overseas, where their friends will pay starvation wages and murder anyone who even thinks of organizing a labor union. The tentacles of the Clinton Crime Family are so numerous, so convoluted and so evil, it would be impossible to summarize them in one book, although a number of investigative reporters have tried.

Having amassed a huge slush fund, the Clintons have spent the last eight years dispersing their largess to the political leaders of the Democratic Party, and even those few who have not been corrupted by their money are too afraid of retribution to openly protest about their corruption of the entire party apparatus. Yes, Hillary has an enemies list too, a very real physical list, where those who have crossed her or opposed her are judged and graded for their crimes against La Familia. Stalin would envy the unquestioned control which she exerts over the party stalwarts.

In the scheme of things, she was to have had her coronation in 2008, but an obscure freshman senator from Illinois managed to come from behind to steal the crown—I mean presidency—quite unexpectedly. Hillary was not the popular choice in 2008 any more than she is now; but this time around, she has made sure that her will in the primaries is rigidly enforced, with local party hacks and Hillary minions busily hacking electronic voting machines (easily done by anyone with an 8th grade science education), forged absentee ballots, and assorted last minute voter purges, vote flipping and change of party affiliation. The evidence of massive vote fraud in Arizona and New York is well documented, but since Hillary’s major contributors include all the major media conglomerates, you will hear ne’er a word on television, the newspapers, radio or much of anywhere else.

Hillary has a 57% distrust rating with the general public, only slightly less than Donald Trump’s; where Bernie Sanders has turned out crowds of twenty, thirty thousand and more fro rallies, Hillary can barely get a thousand or less to show up at her rallies. Fortunately, CNN and MSNBC are very good at using their telephoto lenses to make a small crowd look big. Without the massive cheating she has carried out in primaries across the country, she would not be in the nominal lead in committed delegates right now; even so, Hillary has been unable to put away an outsider candidate, who has virtually walked on eggshells during the primaries not engage in personal attacks on Her Majesty, or even much point out her many obvious weaknesses as a candidate—such as the brewing criminal investigations into her use of private emails to mix her work as Secretary of State with international bribery and influence peddling. Her weakness in the primaries has been abundantly apparent to all but the blind—which apparently includes the DNC.

Hillary has made the DNC an offer it can’t refuse. Sooner or later, Hillary is going down; the only question is, will the entire Democratic Party be bought down with her?

So, given her willingness to go to any extreme to cheat and bribe her way to the nomination, Americans can expect the head of the Clinton Crime Family to be nominated. But if the Democratic Party establishment wishes to believe in Hillary’s never never land of Fillory, voters need to be made aware of the evil that lurks in that fantasy land.

Like the delusional land of Fillory, the magical thinking of the DNC and the Hillarybots will, sooner or later be exposed as the delusion it really is. Whether this is after she has been nominated and her candidacy blows up on the campaign trail, or, if her sabotage of the Republican presidential campaign works (Trump has long been a friend of the Clintons), after she has been elected, she will be almost certainly suffer Congressional investigations for the length of her reign, culminating in her impeachment.

Sooner or later the elaborate lie Hillary Clinton has erected will crash down and take the Democratic Party down with her. When that happens, don’t blame Bernie, his ‘bros’ (or his sis’); blame a corrupt DNC and all the party hacks who went along with her crooked campaign. For all the Queen’s horses and all the Queen’s IT experts won’t be able to bail Queen Hillary out of jail.

Her Royal Highness Hillary flew in to Los Angeles today, less to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and more to grab wads of cash from wealthy Angelinos, in between a stop to speak to Hispanics at a local college. Apparently, because Her Highness carries hot sauce (allegedly) in her handbag, she feels entitled to the Latino vote.

Not all Americans of Hispanic descent welcomed the new Evita Peron to their fair city however. Several Latin American groups in Los Angeles find plenty not to like about the former Secretary of State and planned to protest her Cinco de Mayo visit to East Los Angeles College.

Organizers protesting Her Majesty Hillary’s visit include Union del Barrio-LA, MEXA de ELAC and the Los Angeles Brown Beret. In a communique they “call on the L.A. community to join us this Thursday to tell Hillary that she is NOT WELCOMED in L.A.!”

Organizers called Clinton an enemy of the working class. They also argue that her Central American policies as secretary of state caused death, destruction and deportation. While Secretary of State, Clinton condoned a coup d’état in Honduras and then refused to take action against the military dictatorship. Pretending to be for women and children to American voters, Hillary has covered up the gang rape and murder of women and children in the Central American country, in part because a multi-national with ties to the Clinton Foundation wants to build a giant damn on native lands.

The demonstrators plan to gather at Belvedere Park in East Los Angeles at 3 p.m. and then march on the community college men’s gym two blocks away, where Clinton is scheduled to address supporters.

After the brazen voting fraud displayed in the New York Primary, it was a foregone conclusion that the Clinton Machine would pull out all the stops to cheat their way to victory on the April 27 “Super Tuesday” (It seems like Super Tuesdays are becoming more frequent than “Trials of the Century.”). The signs were all there in Pennsylvania that the same criminal behavior Hillary’s minions practiced in the Big Apple would be on display in PA: forged absentee ballots, hacked electronic voting machines, mysteriously purged voter rolls. Yesterday, one county alone had 900 registered Democrats “missing” on election day; another district had Hillary Clinton handbills on prominent display inside the polling place–that was caught on video–and the poll workers refused to remove the deceptive ads, which were made to look like paper ballots.

Queen Hillary’s coronation seems virtually assured, at least that is what all the corporate media pundits keep telling us. In her arrogance, however, Wall Street Hillary, when asked whether she would meet the Sanders people “halfway” and adopt some of their reform agenda, shut down any talk of compromise. She wants Sen. Sanders to bend the knee and pledge unquestioned allegiance to her and turn over her forces, “for the sake of party loyalty.”

You would think, at the very least, that by now Hillary and her Corporatist lackeys would have grasped what the Sanders Campaign is all about, even if they hated what it stood for. While we all admire Bernie Sanders for his integrity and honesty, he has not attracted the mass following that he has simply on that alone. Nor can his popularity be attributed to his charisma or youthful good looks. No: first and foremost, people have responded to his message of reform and progress.

Bernie Sanders agenda is not just about breaking up the big banks and bringing the Banksters to account for their crimes: but also to create more & better paying jobs; taking money out of the election process and protecting voting rights; stopping the TPP and repeal the other phony free trade deals that have savaged our economy; universal health care; strengthen and enlarge Social Security; free public university education; rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure; make primary and secondary public education public again and not a “profit center” for corporations; end the “Prison Industrial Complex” and stop imprisoning minority groups for petty infractions of the law; the list goes on and on. As Bernie has emphasized over and over, this is not about one person or one election. It is about a fundamental reform of America, a nation which has been ravaged by the bad economics of the GOP and their DINO allies in the Democratic Party ever since the 1980’s.

Occupy Deathstar Protesters

Hillary Clinton’s greed for Corporatist money is only exceeded by her lust for power. Her and the DINO establishment, who have lost far more elections than they have ever won, cannot fathom, it seems, that Bernie Sanders is running on principles, not for personal gain. Even if he were to sell out his ideals, simply for some political appointment, his mass movement will not troop along dociley and tow the Corporatist line, as Hillary and the other corrupt Establishment Dems want.

While there are still several primaries to go and it is still important for every reform minded individual to still turn out and vote for Bernie, we all need to recognize that the Sanders candidacy is not the end, but the end of the beginning (as Churchill once put it)!

Mark my words, there is a bitter convention fight looming, not for the nomination, but for the reform planks that Sen. Sanders advocates to be put into the Democratic Platform.

Wall Street Hillary’s backers do not want any genuine reforming of the financial system, or of the corrupt electoral process that they control, not to mention any of the other Progressive planks we so desperately need enacted. The DINO’s will fight tooth and nail to keep any real and meaningful reform planks out of the platform. Hillary wants nice sounding nostrums, to be sure; and she will promptly betray even those if elected. But any serious and sincere programs of Progressive reform, reforms that the American electorate could get behind? Oh No, God forbid that her real constituency, the 1% that is in currently in control of both parties, should be offended by the Democratic Party Platform.

La Lutte Continue!

After the Democratic Convention, whatever its outcome, all those who have united behind the banner of Bernie Sanders must realize that the real work, the real struggle, the real campaign, has only just begun.

The Empire struck back yesterday. They will continue to do so all through this electoral year and beyond. Through all of their evil machinations in BOTH parties, remember, we are a Rebel alliance, not just one man and not just one race.

The Rebel Alliance needs YOU!

There will be other battles ahead and new Jedi Gekkai of all ages, races, genders and creeds will be needed to succeed. Perhaps even new political parties will be needed to break the stranglehold that the Corporatists have on on our nation–on the world–and if that is what it takes, that is what it takes. The Republican Party, which was once a party of social justice and economic reform, was begun by handful of idealists gathering in a one room schoolhouse.

The road is long, the road is hard, but the destination is worth the effort.

If you haven’t heard by now, the Clintons have wealthy friends; VERY wealthy friends. And they show their friendship in many ways, but mostly through giving them money; LOTS of money. No secret here. Also no secret is that Bill and Hillary will do just about anything for their friends; change their vote in Congress, steer lucrative government contracts their way; make sure they get nice shiny new bombers and missiles and other military hardware that her foreign friends think they may like to play with. Friends like that you can’t put a price tag on except, actually, you can.

You Gotta Friend in Me

Through the Clinton Foundation, Super PACs, Shell Corporations in the Cayman Islands and any number of other dodges and subterfuges that elude even the most diligent forensic accountants, Bill and Hillary shift money around the nation and around the world like your grandpa shifts checkers on a checkerboard. Because I like to keep it simple, however, today let’s just look at the top dozen contributors to Hillary’s current primary election campaign. Now this is the list as reported a short while back, so no doubt the list has grown much bigger and the rankings may have changed since last reported. It also does not take into account speaking fees, super PAC money, Clinton Foundation donations, in kind donations, influence peddling, or any other back door ways of obtaining lucre, filthy or otherwise. So these contributors, whom I call the Dirty Dozen, are but a small tip of the iceberg of the Clinton Cash Machine. In fact, I have every confidence that these same donors are also giving far more money through other avenues than straight to her campaign; but like I said, I wanted to keep it simple.

So here they are, The Dirty Dozen:

Emily’s List……………………….907,510

Citigroup…………………………..891,500

DLA Piper………………………….856,873

Goldman Sachs……………………831,523

J P Morgan Chase…………………801,380

Morgan Stanley……………………765,202

University of California………….686,509

Time Warner……………………….603,170

Skadden, Arps et al……………….562,182

Coring Inc…………………………..492,750

Kirkland & Ellis…………………….491,066

Paul, Weiss et al……………………430,919

Now, on this list are the usual suspects: Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan, Morgan Stanley; and considering how much they give Goldwater Girl Hillary an hour to speak at their meetings (where are the transcripts Hillary?) these are, comparatively, modest sums for getting THEIR CANDIDATE elected. Of course, as noted before, these are the outright campaign contributions, not any of the dark money donations.

Of special note is the fact that one these big money donors is Time Warner, the media conglomerate, whose subsidiary is CNN, the cable news giant. So, when the CNN folks pretend to be objective and then give Bernie fifteen minutes of news coverage to hours for Hillary, we should not be too surprised. Also, when they have a conga line of “commentators” asking why Bernie just doesn’t give up and cede the race to the heir apparent to the throne, this too should be taken for the simpering attempt to control the message in this election that it is.

Time Warner, along with other media giants, is a BIG (or as Trump would say HUUUGE) backer of the Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP, that really awful giveaway to multinational corporations which will undermine national sovereignty (and all local laws the corporations don’t like) as well as transfer more high paying US jobs overseas to nations where they’ll become starvation wage jobs, as well as further hurting the US balance of trade and indirectly increase the Federal deficit. So once Slick Hillary assumes the mantle of power, expect the TPP deal to slide through like a case of diarrhea due to Asian Flu. Did I mention that this and other so-called “Free Trade” deals have nothing to do with trade and are anything but free?

At the top of the list is EMILY’s List, a Pro-Choice, pro-Gay and Transgender, pro-Democratic Party, Feminist organization, dedicated to getting women elected to public office. They bill themselves as a Progressive. So, at first glance Emily’s List is a perfect fit for Pro-LGBT, Pro-Progressive, Vote for Me Because I’m a Woman Hillary. No Progressive Democrat, male or female, could quibble with this group donating to get a Democrat elected, right? Wrong.

According to one media pundit, “basically every Democratic woman candidate is petrified to speak publicly about EMILY’s List’s shenanigans.” Evidently, whenever they give to a candidate’s race, there is an unspoken requirement that they hire a certain media consulting firm, whose president just happens to be the wife of EMILY’s List Campaign Director! The donated money must be spent on the beltway media firm, whose performance is reported to be something less than stellar and who some candidates have blamed for their losing the election.

Apparently liberal candidates are forced to go along with the scam because EMILY’s List is working hand in glove with senior Democratic Party officials to fleece candidate’s campaigns. Obviously, a few high powered party establishment operatives are benefiting from this scam at the expense of the Progressive wing of the party; I wonder who they could be, Bill and Hillary?

More curious on the Dirty Dozen list is the University of California, weighing in at more than three quarters of a million dollar donation. It is ethically dubious even for a private university to contribute to a political campaign; it is even worse for a PUBLIC university to do so. A “Fact Sheet” distributed by U. of C. in fact denies that the school makes any political contributions or funds any political action committees. They do, however, say that “sometimes organizations that track campaign contributions, such as http://opensecrets.org, take the official data provided by the FEC about campaign contributions and report by demographic breakdown, such as by industry or employer” and UC characterize such listings as “misleading.” So technically, no, the University of California did not directly give; but some pundits note that there is a “revolving door” between political lobbyists and government officeholders and the members of UC administration and the University does “track” bills in Congress as well as any Executive Branch’s proposed rules and regulations which may affect the university and higher education in general. Also, there are political operatives who do “bundling” of UC employee contributions, plus there is the dark world of PACs, who are legally separate from their beneficiary organization, but who unofficially coordinate their activities with it. So the truth here is, let us say, somewhat murky.

Then we have the big money law firms. Hillary is a lawyer; they’re lawyers; what could be more natural, right?

Up near the top is DLA Piper, a GLOBAL multinational law firm, with offices in over 30 countries; it is the largest law firm in the world with billions in revenue; virtually every lawyer in the firm is a multi-millionaire. Just a bunch of poor ol’ country lawyers. It should come as no surprise that its legal staff has included, not just US senators and cabinet members, but former Prime Ministers and other high international Muckey-Mucks. According to the watchdog, Above the Law, “the firm makes for great copy; there’s always something funny, ridiculous, or salacious going down over there.” This includes accusations of over-billing its filthy rich clientele (no tears here over that) and the firm’s involvement with a fossil fuel executive who claimed to be working for the CIA in order to get into the panties of two Khazakh women, whom he had “rescued” from a brothel (or was it a seraglio?), as well as more serious scandals over the years.

Skadden Arps is perhaps not so colorful as DLA Piper, but it too is an international law firm with tentacles firmly in the Washington establishment, doing lobbying for major corporations and with a notable tilt towards Democratic politics. Love ya Hill baby.

Paul, Weiss is another lobbying law firm with headquarters in New York City but major offices in Washington and overseas. Besides buttering up pols such as Bill & Hill, they do entertainment law and manage corporate mergers and takeovers, in addition to the occasion pro bono good deed, such as representing detainees held in durance vile in Gitmo.

Kirkland & Ellis is similarly a heavy hitter law firm who do entertainment and corporate law; they went to bat for BP when the oil giant polluted the entire Gulf Coast and got some of its workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill fiasco. They didn’t clean up the heavy crude, but did try to clean up the legal mess for their multinational client. They trend toward Dems, being a major backer of Obama in 2008 and have their own PAC to distribute additional largesse. Apparently they want to get in Hillary’s good graces before she becomes the Anointed One.

There are, of course, very many more law firms and lobbyists on the Hillary hit list; we have only looked at the tip of the iceberg here. Where the real influence peddling with Bill & Hill goes on is in the murkier nether regions of the Clinton empire, namely the Clinton Foundation and the spiders webs of PAC’s and other organizations. Of course, as the email and Panama Paper scandals unfold, more will be revealed; that’s when the real fun begins.

As one Repugnican pundit has observed, on the campaign circuit Hillary Clinton travels around with two jets; one for Hillary and her entourage, and one for her baggage.

Caucuses do not normally allow absentee voting, yet in Wyoming hundreds of “surrogate” ballots appeared magically on caucus day.

Although the mainstream media covered Senator Sanders landslide win in Wyoming and the subsequent skewed delegate apportionment in favor of Hillary Clinton, what is not being covered is the emerging evidence of egregious vote manipulation and fraud by the Clinton Machine.

Senator Sanders racked up an impressive 56% win to Clinton’s 44%, yet after the fuzzy math was done by the Democratic Party establishment, out of the states’ 18 total potential delegates, Hillary Clinton received 11, in effect reversing the decision of the caucus goers. Even deducting the 4 super-delegates, who are uncommitted and are expected to vote for whichever candidate has the most committed delegates coming to the convention, that still means Clinton netted half of the delegates. Sanders nets 40% of the caucus delegates despite a respectable lead? This peculiar math was commented on even by Joe Scarborough and the other political commentators on MSNBC’s Morning Joe: .

Unfortunately, Joe, you don’t know the half of it. Laramie County is the state’s capital and more populous than most of Wyoming, a rural state. The caucus turnout in Laramie County was heavy, with the attendees overwhelmingly in favor of Bernie Sanders: 689 to Clinton’s 111. But magically, 620 absentee ballots suddenly appeared on the day of the caucus in favor of Hillary Clinton!

Bear in mind, Wyoming is a caucus state, where the candidate is only chosen by those voters who are attending in person NOT by either electronic vote and still less by absentee ballot. Surrogate voting is only allowed in the caucus under rare and extenuating circumstances.

So how is it that that so many persons in this one county suddenly developed La Grippe or, say, absent on military duty? Such a skewed surrogate vote is statistically IMPOSSIBLE—at least in an honest election.

The MSNBC reporter in the field, Kristen Dahlgren, reporting from Laramie, observed that “clearly there were clearly a lot more Bernie Sanders supporters here at the caucus.” When she asked Democratic Party official and Clinton loyalist Kathy Karpon whether she was surprised at the big Hillary vote, when so many attending the caucus were clearly for Bernie, she slyly responded that she was not surprised “because we knew we had the surrogate ballots out there.”

Over at CNN (a network owned by a major Clinton donor) a Clinton flack was dispatched to provide spin control to avoid any embarrassing questions about the peculiar results coming out of Wyoming. The Clinton stooge claimed that, unlike the 82% or 86% votes coming out of the other western caucuses, Wyoming was held down to a 12 point lead by Sanders because, he alleged, of Wyoming’s “onerous vote-by-mail rules” that anyone filing a surrogate ballot had to have voted as a Democrat in the 2014 mid-terms. That, he said, was their “secret sauce.” The only problem with this excuse is that it is a total fabrication: a quick glance at state Democratic voting rules reveals no such mid-term restriction.

The “secret sauce” in Wyoming was Clinton minions’ ballot stuffing and egregious voter fraud. Reports have been trickling out of other states of voting irregularities and sabotage, all pointing to a concerted campaign of vote fraud on the part of the Clinton Machine. This has largely gone unreported by the mainstream media and so far the Sanders campaign has been reluctant to investigate the reports and file official complaints, perhaps out of fear of being accused of “sour grapes.”

Evidence of voting irregularities are emerging in primary states but have yet to be adequately investigated.

Rigged elections are a serious issue. Wyoming is a small state in so far as numbers of delegates go; but because of that, the Clinton dirty tricks were more obvious than in a bigger electoral state. Wyoming is not an isolated case. There is a trail of fraud and manipulation attributable to the Clinton Campaign since at least the Massachusetts primary. The Democratic establishment may fear that the Clinton money machine will come to an end if Bernie Sanders wins the nomination, but the looming Clintongate scandal may well explode in their well-heeled Wall Street funded faces, just as Watergate did to Richard Nixon and the Republicans.